This is a program I made that I called Velbac. It is used to send audio from a Creative soundcard to
another soundcard.
The name has a meaning. This program is a virtual cable. The names comes from that. V as in virtual and elbac as in cable reversed.
The Creative soundcard can be any of them that support "what you hear" through ASIO. I think that the only exception is a Sound Blaster Live 24-bit because it uses a different architecture. It will work with SoundBlaster Live!, Audigy, Audigy 2 and X-Fi.
On the SBLive! you must use the kX project audio drivers because the drivers from Creative for this card don't support ASIO.
Audigy and Audigy 2, you can use either the kX project audio drivers or the Creative audio drivers.
On the X-Fi, you must use the Creative audio drivers.
It probably also works fine with the YouP PAX drivers on Audigy, Audigy 2 and X-Fi since they are modified Creative drivers but nobody ever tested it until now.
One use of this program is to get EAX support on a soundcard that does not support it. To do that, you :
- Configure the default audio playback device of Windows to the Creative sound card.
- Use Velbac to send the audio from the Creative sound card to another sound card.
This way, you can have EAX support and send to a card that has higher quality outputs or hardware AC3 encoding.
The drawback is some added audio latency.
I tested the program with a Sound Blaster Live! with the kX drivers and an onboard soundcard.
ROBSCIX tested the program with an Audigy 2 with the Creative and an X-Meridian soundcard.
A friend of ROBSCIX tested the program with an X-Fi with the Creative and an X-Meridian soundcard.
It works fine on those three different setups.
- It sometimes crashes on Windows Vista and it needs a reboot of the computer before being able to re-execute it.
- It crashes if you use DirectSound and the destination soundcard does not support the frequency or bitrate.
- Fix the know problems
- Add support for a second destination soundcard only for those using the kX drivers.
To ROBSCIX on Guru3D and DriveHeaven. He is the one you can thank for asking me to make this program.
CRFX from DriverHeaven.net
- See the Readme.txt file included in the download.
I accept donations. I will add your name to the donator list if you wish it (drop me an email at samaust@hotmail.com to request it after making a donation). Click on one of the donation pictures below to donate 5$, 10$ or 20$ through PayPal. It works even if you don't have a PayPal account because it can use your credit card.
Download Velbac v1.00 here
Download Velbac v2.00 here
Copyright (c) 2007. Tril AKA Samuel Austin